Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Krimel] > > Asking how a purposeless universe can evolve purposeful creatures is no > > different than asking how an entityless universe can evolve entities. We > > don't need to ask how it 'could' when we can look to the evidence and see > > how it did. Entities that have the ability to access memory and use it as > > a guide to the future are more likely to pass along their genes. > > [Platt] > So I take it your answer to how can a purposeless universe evolve > purposeful creatures and how can an entityless universe evolve entities is > "Don't ask." > > [Krimel] > Not at all that is what biologists are doing. They are asking. If you were > seriously interested you would be asking them and paying attention to their > answers.
Have they found any answers yet? You seem to suggest they haven't. > > [Platt] > Also, I know of no evidence that answers the question of how "did" a > purposeless universe evolve entities with a purpose to pass along their > genes. So far as I know the beginning of life (the first life form) on > earth is still a mystery to science with some theorizing it came from > space. Have I missed a discovery? > > [Krimel] > The evidence takes the form of the fossil record and the spectrum of > creatures that share our planet. Evolution is the bedrock of biology, I > would suggest E.O Wilson or Stephen Gould but Dawkins' early work in the > Selfish Gene and Blind Watchmaker would be instructive as well. Regardless I > would insist that anyone who does not understand evolutionary theory in > today's world can not truly claim to be educated. The question was how did the first life form become a life form. Does evolutionary theory explain the beginning of life? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
